During the Shinnō Suppression War, quite a few people had seen Lin Qing pull the Golden Spin Rasengan from his pocket. Earlier still, he had even drawn that terrifyingly huge Blade of Ruin from thin air.
Clearly, he possessed a private alternate dimension of his own.
"Once Lin Qing truly extracts the Tailed Beast discs and throws them into that alternate dimension, we'll never be able to gather all nine Tailed Beasts again," Itachi Uchiha said.
For an alternate dimension connected through space-time ninjutsu, once its caster died, either the alternate dimension would be destroyed, or its entrance could never be found again.
No matter the outcome, the Tailed Beast discs would be lost.
Even more troublesome was that A's condition proved that extracting the discs did not mean death. Even the Tailed Beasts' resurrection mechanism had been suppressed.
It was a truly unsolvable situation.
Kisame asked, "But can something like that really be done? It sounds like extracting a Tailed Beast without harming the Jinchuriki."
Pain said gravely, "It probably wasn't possible in the past, but things are hard to say now. Don't forget that Lin Qing's Research Institute just obtained the White Snake Sage's memories."
Everyone understood at once.
The Jashin Great White Snake squad's invasion of the Research Institute had failed. Orochimaru's puppet body had died, Hidan's mouth and eyes had been captured alive, and White Snake Sage No. 2 had died in the server room.
Before its death, it had continuously synced its memories and filled the database, preventing the central control computer from detecting anything unusual and sounding the alarm.
Though only part of them had been read, those were the memories of the White Snake Sage, one of the Three Great Sage Lands.
The research materials, cultivation experience, and senjutsu ninja techniques within its